"For those two it was good to get them rest for a couple of games," Steven Stamkos said. "They're a huge piece of the team. We knew they'd be ready come playoff time."

Both Filppula and Palat are expected to play tomorrow.

All In The Family

Lightning forward Ryan Callahan, 29, and Canadiens captain Brian Gionta, 35, both grew up in Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. As kids Callahan hung out with Gionta's younger brother Stephen, 30, now a forward for the New Jersey Devils. Gionta hung out with Callahan's older brother Mike.

"Both our families are still close today," Callahan said. "I was always over their house a ton as a kid playing outside street hockey with Stevie. It's definitely going to be cool to meet him now in the playoffs."

Practice: Lines

Palat-Johnson-Stamkos

Killorn-Filppula-Callahan

Brown-Paquette-Kucherov

Purcell-Thompson-Panik

Crombeen-Pyatt-Kunyk

(Cody Kunyk is ineligible to appear in the playoffs due to signing after the trade deadline)